This paper describes a computational approach to resolving the true referent of a named mention of a person in the body of an email. A generative model of mention generation is used to guide mention resolution. Results on three relatively small collections indicate that the accuracy of this approach compares favorably to the best known techniques, and results on the full CMU Enron collection in...

Personal name disambiguation is an important task in social network extraction, evaluation and integration of ontologies, information retrieval, cross-document co-reference resolution and word sense disambiguation. We propose an unsupervised method to automatically annotate people with ambiguous names on the web using automatically extracted keywords. Given an ambiguous personal name, first, we...

When you search for information regarding a particular person on the web, a search engine returns many pages. Some of these pages may be for people with the same name. How can we disambiguate these different people with the same name? This paper presents an unsupervised algorithm which produces key phrases for the different people with the same name. These key phrases could be used to further n...

As early as the late 1990s, it was recognised that “names are as important in a digital library as an ISBN number is in a traditional library” (Cleveland 1998). In an ideal situation, personal names are as able to identify digital objects uniquely as they are to identify people. In the real world, however, names are sometimes not unique enough to handle identifications for digital objects. This...

The personal name aliases are extremely significant in information retrieval to retrieve complete information about a personal name from the web, as some of the web pages of the person may also be referred by his or her alias name / nick name / real name. There is a rapid growth in people searching where the personal name aliases are concerned. We proposed a pattern generator which includes aut...

Names are important in many societies, even in technologically oriented ones which use ID systems or other ways to identify individual people. Names such as personal surnames are the most important as they are used in many processes, such as identifying of people, record linkage and for genealogical research as well. For Thai names this situation is a bit different in that in Thai the first nam...